This message was so on my street, parked in front of my house and sitting in my kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This mirrored my life so much right now, I really have a limp, unemployed, homeless and been wrestling with the ministry! Everytime I tell the LORD no, HE sends someone for me to pray for, someone for me to minister to, it's prophetic. Pastor Wesley, thank GOD for blessing you in advance and for what HE is doing in me.
One of the most intelligent, insightful and introspective sermons I think I have ever heard. This is the type of preaching our generation needs so desperately, unconventional aspects of God's personality, backed up with sound preaching and pure scripture. Bravo Pastor Wesley, To God Be The Glory
God is not only sweet He is sweet beyond anything we could ever imagine Problem is most evangelicals Understanding of Salvation is No Further Along than an Old Covenant Jew
This message of depth is a trying for any Christian's faith. I count it a GREAT blessing for Pastor Wesley to even attempt it. This is a hard to digest message for any servant of the Lord. "I'm willing to die to get my blessing". "I won't let go because i'm going to get my blessing"
This sermon was on another level. Never heard it preached like this before. So deep I came to watch it again. I read that chapter over and over again. Very insightful sermon.
Here I am again going through life and it is this sermon that gets me through this the one that tells me what I need to hear and it’s no longer a breaking season but I am struggling with God so here I am
There is a blessing in the breaking. My God what a message Break me God. Make me better Lord. Draw me nearer. Pastor Wesley thank you . Thank you. I have some Jacob in me but my Israel is Greater. To God Be The Glory! Even in my disobedience God to blessed me. Not without A Limp. Come on Pastor Wesley.
Thank you so much pastor!!!! I wrestled with a Spirit many years ago from what I remember about a 7 day fast. I grew up fasting for God in church so I did it when I had moved away from home because I was use to it. I was by myself like Jacob. Immediately when I tried to get out of bed a Spirit pulled me and wrestled me to the floor from my bedroom into the living room. It grabbed me by my neck. I was fighting for my life! Yet somehow I don't really recall being afraid. I only recall fighting. After awhile It left me. My throat remained soar for a few days. Then I went through a long period of uncertainty in my life for years. I wondered Who that was that attacked me on my bed from fasting to God for years. I'm so thankful to hear your word today. Like a revelation in my ears. Thank you! ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏
Hallelujah Jesus for this phenomenal Holy Ghost anointed Word! Jacob was still operating in the flesh prior to his encounter with God. He had sought to buy Esau’s forgiveness and assuage Esau’s anger with stuff, but when he’d been touched by the hand of God, his entire life changed. It’s not an overnight change! I love how Pastor used the Abraham, Isaac and Jacob analogy, reminding us that no matter how righteous we try to be, we all have some Jacob tendencies!!! THANK YOU FATHER GOD, JESUS OUR SAVIOR, AND HOLY SPIRIT!!!
Thank You! Thank You! Pastor Howard, what an Awesome Sermon. Been working on my testimony, and fumbled into this Scripture, because I'm at an old age, because I wasn't Smart enough to realize, God has been in hot Pursuit of, which I am Thankful for his Grace and Mercy. I've heard 30 plus Sermons, and this has got Beatiful explanation!! Due to a bad left hip, I no longer ride my Harley. For 58 years I have been wrestling with God. God Bless You Pastor...
I needed this message, it speaks to my current situation. I've been struggling and I cried out to God that I feel broken and I give up. This sermon really resonates. Insightful and so well crafted. God continue to bless you. You're such a good messenger of His word.
Thank You Father🙏🌹🌹🌹.. God's messages travel forever though life.. Oo how this truly is a blessing for me at this exact time in my life💞 Thank You Abba 🙏🙏🙏 Thank You Jesus Thank You my Lord🙏💞💞💞 May God continue to Bless and favor your life and your ministry🙏
This is AWESOME! GOD IS AWESOME!! Thank you so much. I've been reading & stopped because I couldn't fully understand exactly what you went over. I'm so happy I can continue reading with a GREAT understanding. THANK YOU
Blessings for this Powerful sermon. This blessed me tremendously, as all of the Alfred Street sermons do. I praise God for your ministry. I Surrender All to Him whom I wrestle with. Hallelujah
This message has me speechless and in tears. Amazing how Anointed this Man of God is. To God Be The Glory.. This right here. Wow. Continue to let God use you Sir. Blessings.
I remember going to Rev.Mccoys church in Vallejo and Rev Hawkins church in Oakland CA and while everyone's eyes was closed praying a white man came in the church and I watched him so that he did not hurt the children in the church .Second I realize just like in the Charleston church shooting with Rev .Pinkett white folks seem to wanna come in a black church when everyones eyes are closed praying so I watch and pray.That day in Charleston a white man shot up the church and the black folks in it while there eyes were closed praying .
We must pray for others. We must pray children have fathers and mothers and a foundation of the laws to live free in the new testament and adult life. Love them for their lives and their future and raising them. In a way the world says is too mean these days. It does not mean every day is discipline. Many days are good. But when teaching and raising do not kill but teach do not spoil. Spoil is what it means. Love them enough to give them a future to walk through the fire and come out the other side in perseverance. Disciplined and prepared for life. Not in embarrassing abusing etc. And not in a place that will take it from you. Nineveh tries to learn. That is granted them for trying to learn. Or not knowing. To know you may have to give a second chance if you don't know either. I never ran anywhere, for everyone is everywhere. May not look the same. But the spirit is. Old Testament foundation new testament individual life.
That is why it is raise your children up in the way they should go that the world says is wrong. Wants to convict the parent that doesn't spare the rod to spoil their children. They hate them and when we do we are under secular attack and yet others go too far and kill their children. Or in casting out demons. Or think they have a demon being normal human beings. Being a normal human being is not a demon. How God created human beings. And there is no favor in some families and no one sees their scars or stripes . assumes many things. In convetting that we are also warned about.
Some of the details of this are not represented accurately. It wasn't oatmeal it was lentil or venison. The scripture doesn't say Esau gathered 400 men but that there were 400 men with him. We don't know if the men sent to Esau found him and them en route from/to somewhere. It doesn't even intimate that Esau was still wanting to kill Jacob. And Laban didn't put Jacob out. Yah told Jacob to leave and go back to his home country with the assurance He would be with him. However it was apparent Jacob that it was really his guilty conscience and scheming identity that was the true threat to his future not Esau The overall message though is great!! 👍
I love this message. However he makes a leap of assumption as to why God was wrestling with Jacob. There's no biblical evidence to support/clarify why Jacob's hip was broken or what the fight was over. Still, it's a moving word.
I love this message too! If you listen to what pastor Wesley says before he states why God broke Jacob's hip (perhaps it should be more logical and definitely not a leap of assumption when it happens all the time in the life of humanity and to those who serve God. The Spirit speaks in this message, listen.): "What struggle is there in life where God doesn't always prevail? There is only one struggle where we can stand seemingly toe to toe with God and that is the struggle of our will". If this is true, process of elimination is that that the fight was over will. We do know that is what the allowance of God for Jacob's hip to be broken because GOD didn't prevent it (and God's hand was on Jacob) AND after it was broken, we can gather that Jacob was utterly dependent and no longer against the will of God. Sin is defined as being outside of the will of God in whatever circumstance. God intervenes for the ones he loves and has a purpose for so breaking does occur, we don't always have to know why especially when we know things don't just happen by accident. #Submit &Surrender #Cause&Effect Although an assumption (because pastor wasn't there), definitely not a leap of untruth because the Word tells us what happens to Jacob and pastor mentions more than a few verses to draw several conclusions that are essentially the same and consistent for Jacob's behavior.
Ethel Mississippi got struck by lightning Emit Martin and Pearl Martin is my Grandparents.Tommy Williams and Mable Alice Williams are my other Grandparents.
This message was so on my street, parked in front of my house and sitting in my kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This mirrored my life so much right now, I really have a limp, unemployed, homeless and been wrestling with the ministry! Everytime I tell the LORD no, HE sends someone for me to pray for, someone for me to minister to, it's prophetic. Pastor Wesley, thank GOD for blessing you in advance and for what HE is doing in me.
One of the most intelligent, insightful and introspective sermons I think I have ever heard. This is the type of preaching our generation needs so desperately, unconventional aspects of God's personality, backed up with sound preaching and pure scripture. Bravo Pastor Wesley, To God Be The Glory
I really flipped , when You yelled "Joe!!! Come here!!! JOE is my name! As I was taking notes, almost fell out of bed!!😇
God is not only sweet
He is sweet beyond anything we could ever imagine
Problem is most evangelicals
Understanding of Salvation is No Further Along than an Old Covenant Jew
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Thank you Lord for my Limb because its after the Limb that i got to realize that you are God. Now in your mercy change my name and bless me. Amen!
10 years plus yet this sermon is so inspiring. ..thank you Pastor John Wesley
This message of depth is a trying for any Christian's faith. I count it a GREAT blessing for Pastor Wesley to even attempt it. This is a hard to digest message for any servant of the Lord.
"I'm willing to die to get my blessing". "I won't let go because i'm going to get my blessing"
This sermon was on another level. Never heard it preached like this before. So deep I came to watch it again. I read that chapter over and over again. Very insightful sermon.
Here I am again going through life and it is this sermon that gets me through this the one that tells me what I need to hear and it’s no longer a breaking season but I am struggling with God so here I am
There is a blessing in the breaking. My God what a message Break me God. Make me better Lord. Draw me nearer. Pastor Wesley thank you . Thank you. I have some Jacob in me but my Israel is Greater. To God Be The Glory! Even in my disobedience God to blessed me. Not without A Limp. Come on Pastor Wesley.
My, my, my...after all these years of reading and hearing this story..I never fully understood it until now!!! Preach pastor!!
Thank you so much pastor!!!! I wrestled with a Spirit many years ago from what I remember about a 7 day fast. I grew up fasting for God in church so I did it when I had moved away from home because I was use to it. I was by myself like Jacob. Immediately when I tried to get out of bed a Spirit pulled me and wrestled me to the floor from my bedroom into the living room. It grabbed me by my neck. I was fighting for my life! Yet somehow I don't really recall being afraid. I only recall fighting. After awhile It left me. My throat remained soar for a few days. Then I went through a long period of uncertainty in my life for years. I wondered Who that was that attacked me on my bed from fasting to God for years. I'm so thankful to hear your word today. Like a revelation in my ears. Thank you! ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏
Hallelujah Jesus for this phenomenal Holy Ghost anointed Word! Jacob was still operating in the flesh prior to his encounter with God. He had sought to buy Esau’s forgiveness and assuage Esau’s anger with stuff, but when he’d been touched by the hand of God, his entire life changed. It’s not an overnight change! I love how Pastor used the Abraham, Isaac and Jacob analogy, reminding us that no matter how righteous we try to be, we all have some Jacob tendencies!!! THANK YOU FATHER GOD, JESUS OUR SAVIOR, AND HOLY SPIRIT!!!
God appeared in the form of an angel.Hosea 12 vs4. God breaks us so we can surrender our will.I want to say simply "Great preaching".
Jesus!!! I needed this message desperately today. Yesss!! In my Israel, there is still some Jacob.
My hip is tore up concerning my divorce. My pride is tore up. I will do what this says the Lord.
The most scholarly teaching i have ever heard on Jacob's wrestle with God. Eye opening, life changing.
Thank You! Thank You! Pastor Howard, what an Awesome Sermon. Been working on my testimony, and fumbled into this Scripture, because I'm at an old age, because I wasn't Smart enough to realize, God has been in hot Pursuit of, which I am Thankful for his Grace and Mercy. I've heard 30 plus Sermons, and this has got Beatiful explanation!! Due to a bad left hip, I no longer ride my Harley. For 58 years I have been wrestling with God. God Bless You Pastor...
I needed this message, it speaks to my current situation. I've been struggling and I cried out to God that I feel broken and I give up. This sermon really resonates. Insightful and so well crafted. God continue to bless you. You're such a good messenger of His word.
Powerful teaching. I never heard it taught this way. I learned a lot about God.
Thank You Father🙏🌹🌹🌹.. God's messages travel forever though life.. Oo how this truly is a blessing for me at this exact time in my life💞 Thank You Abba 🙏🙏🙏 Thank You Jesus Thank You my Lord🙏💞💞💞 May God continue to Bless and favor your life and your ministry🙏
I've listened to this sermon over and over and every time it has touched me inspired me and taught me how to embrace my breaking season
Thank You Father Jesus Holy Spirit 🙏🏾 🙌🏾 for all you do for us 🙏🏾 ❤️ in Jesus name Amen ❤️ 🙏🏾 🙌🏾
A God who'll pick a fight with you, and when He doesn't prevail, He'll break your hip. SMH..pstr Wesley brought this here word!
Pastor Howard John Wesley is a Teacher. He is truly blesses with the knowledge and wisdom that God blessed him with. Great Sermon.
Absolutely outstanding teaching!!! Thank God for this messenger!!! I did not know the depth of this story prior to this message!
Love the message. Have to love the struggle. There is something to learn in pain and strife. Amen.
Beautiful, simply beautiful thanxs for posting God bless you! Oh how I Love Jesus because He first Loved me!
This is AWESOME! GOD IS AWESOME!! Thank you so much. I've been reading & stopped because I couldn't fully understand exactly what you went over. I'm so happy I can continue reading with a GREAT understanding. THANK YOU
I always enjoy your preaching Pastor. This message touched me very much. May God shower you with blessings.
Blessings for this Powerful sermon. This blessed me tremendously, as all of the Alfred Street sermons do. I praise God for your ministry.
I Surrender All to Him whom I wrestle with. Hallelujah
Hold on to me. After breaking me Jesus!I hear you Jesus love ❤️ you Jesus Name 🙏🏾 ❤️ 🙌🏾 💙 💛
Again another awesome sermon !!
Thanking God. Yes God. Thank You Lord for the breaking. SOS Thank You Lord!!!!
An amazing sermon on Jacob's wrestling as I've ever heard in my sixty plus years.
This message has me speechless and in tears. Amazing how Anointed this Man of God is. To God Be The Glory.. This right here. Wow. Continue to let God use you Sir. Blessings.
Amen to that
Myron McGee my family I remember giving his step son my cousin from Virginia jbo jeans at our reunion in 2004 and never getting them back.
I wish I lived in his city!
Lord I thank you for my limp!!🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😭😭😭😭
Brilliant Man..Thank you Lord!!!
Amazing. SOOO excited for the remainder of this series.
I remember going to Rev.Mccoys church in Vallejo and Rev Hawkins church in Oakland CA and while everyone's eyes was closed praying a white man came in the church and I watched him so that he did not hurt the children in the church .Second I realize just like in the Charleston church shooting with Rev .Pinkett white folks seem to wanna come in a black church when everyones eyes are closed praying so I watch and pray.That day in Charleston a white man shot up the church and the black folks in it while there eyes were closed praying .
Glory to God. Hallelujah Amen.
Wow. What a POWERFUL message.
Awesome preaching
Speak the truth and save a soul 👏🏾
Awesome message pastor.
Jodie is who in biblical story
I'm not of your denomination, I don't even worship on the same Sabbath. But you're a very gifted speaker!
My God! My God!
We must pray for others. We must pray children have fathers and mothers and a foundation of the laws to live free in the new testament and adult life. Love them for their lives and their future and raising them. In a way the world says is too mean these days. It does not mean every day is discipline. Many days are good. But when teaching and raising do not kill but teach do not spoil. Spoil is what it means. Love them enough to give them a future to walk through the fire and come out the other side in perseverance. Disciplined and prepared for life. Not in embarrassing abusing etc. And not in a place that will take it from you. Nineveh tries to learn. That is granted them for trying to learn. Or not knowing. To know you may have to give a second chance if you don't know either. I never ran anywhere, for everyone is everywhere. May not look the same. But the spirit is. Old Testament foundation new testament individual life.
What an on time word!!!!!
Amen glory to God
Wow. 🎉🙏🏿
Grateful LORD!!
Amen ❤️ 🙏🏾
That is why it is raise your children up in the way they should go that the world says is wrong. Wants to convict the parent that doesn't spare the rod to spoil their children. They hate them and when we do we are under secular attack and yet others go too far and kill their children. Or in casting out demons. Or think they have a demon being normal human beings. Being a normal human being is not a demon. How God created human beings. And there is no favor in some families and no one sees their scars or stripes . assumes many things. In convetting that we are also warned about.
Say so! Preach preacher!
Preach Pastor!
Some of the details of this are not represented accurately. It wasn't oatmeal it was lentil or venison. The scripture doesn't say Esau gathered 400 men but that there were 400 men with him. We don't know if the men sent to Esau found him and them en route from/to somewhere. It doesn't even intimate that Esau was still wanting to kill Jacob. And Laban didn't put Jacob out. Yah told Jacob to leave and go back to his home country with the assurance He would be with him. However it was apparent Jacob that it was really his guilty conscience and scheming identity that was the true threat to his future not Esau
The overall message though is great!! 👍
INSPIRING WORD.
Brother Chambers Bethel missionary Baptist church Oakland CA 69th and rudsdale /Herbert guide way .
WOW. 15:10
Gooood Word
I was born in 1990
I love this message. However he makes a leap of assumption as to why God was wrestling with Jacob. There's no biblical evidence to support/clarify why Jacob's hip was broken or what the fight was over. Still, it's a moving word.
I love this message too! If you listen to what pastor Wesley says before he states why God broke Jacob's hip (perhaps it should be more logical and definitely not a leap of assumption when it happens all the time in the life of humanity and to those who serve God. The Spirit speaks in this message, listen.): "What struggle is there in life where God doesn't always prevail? There is only one struggle where we can stand seemingly toe to toe with God and that is the struggle of our will". If this is true, process of elimination is that that the fight was over will. We do know that is what the allowance of God for Jacob's hip to be broken because GOD didn't prevent it (and God's hand was on Jacob) AND after it was broken, we can gather that Jacob was utterly dependent and no longer against the will of God. Sin is defined as being outside of the will of God in whatever circumstance. God intervenes for the ones he loves and has a purpose for so breaking does occur, we don't always have to know why especially when we know things don't just happen by accident. #Submit &Surrender #Cause&Effect
Although an assumption (because pastor wasn't there), definitely not a leap of untruth because the Word tells us what happens to Jacob and pastor mentions more than a few verses to draw several conclusions that are essentially the same and consistent for Jacob's behavior.
My Brother, what happened? You have strayed from the Word, preaching what "itching ears" want to hear. You need to come back to this sermon.
Ethel Mississippi got struck by lightning Emit Martin and Pearl Martin is my Grandparents.Tommy Williams and Mable Alice Williams are my other Grandparents.
12/22/22
1989 Earthquake
12/18/22